Skip to main content.
Related sites:
Religion News Blog is a non-profit service providing academics, religion professionals and other researchers with religion & cult news
ReligionNewsBlog

Religion news articles about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues

Navigation:
Web religionnewsblog.com
Home | Site Menu | About RNB | RNB Store | Cult FAQ | Cult Experts | Apologetics Index | Cult Information Search Engine
Gilbert Deya Ministries:

Miracle baby mother ‘assaulted’

icSouthLondon, UK
Nov. 6, 2007
Ryan Kisiel
icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk
  • Article Tools  • Share This Story

ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 19831 • Posted: Tuesday November 6, 2007  

Click here... More articles on this topic: Gilbert Deya Ministries

A woman desperate to have a child was “assaulted” in order to make her believe she had conceived a “miracle baby”, a court heard.

Gilbert Deya, an evangelical preacher who runs an international ministry from Peckham, is facing extradition to Kenya for stealing five children and attempting to pass them off as his own.

Police rescued 10 children from his home in Kenya in 2004 and arrested three church members including his wife Mary Juma Deya.

It is feared the youngsters are used to create the illusion of a “miracle birth” and attract donations to the Gilbert Deya Ministries, based in Ormside Road, which claims to have 34,000 worshippers.

On Thursday, City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how Haringey council took a one-year-old baby into care after it was brought to this country from Nairobi by a British couple in October 2003.

Adina Ezekiel, for the Kenyan authorities, said Mrs E, the supposed mother of baby, known as “child C”, believed she had given birth less than 27 days after a special prayer session held at a Kenyan church. Her faith held despite three separate medical tests in this country confirming she was not pregnant.

Ms Ezekiel told the court: “The judge [who made the order to take the child into care] concluded that in order to make Mrs E believe she had given birth, she was allegedly assaulted.

“It shows a willingness to commit such acts as assault in order to convince others of a particular set of circumstances.”

Deya, 55, was arrested at a South London immigration centre but is resisting his return to Kenya claiming he could face the death penalty or be tortured if convicted.

He claims his open opposition to the Kenyan president could also prejudice his case and he could be charged with the murder of a police inspector.

But no murder charge appears on the Kenyan authority’s warrant sheet.

The hearing, which opened on Wednesday, has heard Deya and his wife harboured five stolen children, aged between 12 months and four-and-a-half years old, between 12 May, 1999, and 19 August, 2004.

Mrs Deya has since been jailed for two years in Kenya.

Deya was remanded on conditional bail until November 8 when a judgement will be made.



Religion News Blog RSS feed Subscribe: Religion News Blog RSS feed  |  Religion News Blog RSS feed Subscribe by topic: Gilbert Deya Ministries
more cult news articlemore religion news More articles about Gilbert Deya Ministries

Like this story?

Today's Most Popular Articles

Share this

To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:




Article and Site Tools

» PermaLink to: Miracle baby mother ‘assaulted’
   Need a shorter link? You can remove everything after the final /
» More news articles + news archive on Gilbert Deya Ministries
» More religion and cult news

Subscribe (RSS / Email) [What is RSS?]
» RSS News Feed - All Topics: Religion News Blog RSS Feed
» RSS News Feed - Single Topic: Gilbert Deya Ministries
» Headlines by Email: Daily Religion News Blog Headlines

More Article Tools
• Bookmark / Tag: Del.icio.us
• Bookmark / Tag: Furl
Save this article
Email this article
Print this article [Temporarily out of order]

More Information
Books about Gilbert Deya Ministries
Relevant books (and other goodies)

more religion news aboutmore Religion News Blog articles about

About Religion News Blog
Religion News Blog (RNB), published by Apologetics Index, highlights news items and other resources on world religions, cults, religious sects, alternative religions and related issues. RNB's non-profit news clipping service is used by - among others - Christian apologists, countercult professionals, anticult organizations, cult experts, teachers, religion professionals, reporters and other researchers.

Home
Latest Headlines
RSS news feed [?]
Headlines by Email
News Trackers
Free content for your site
About RNB
Privacy Policy
Contact RNB
Link to RNB
Advertise on RNB
Apologetics Index
Cult FAQ
Apologetics Search Engine
CounterCult Search Engine